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protoplasm without granules and a large, deeply staining nucleus. Unfortu- 
nately the blood and bone marrow were not studied because the condition 
was confused with tuberculosis, and we only wish to put on record here the 
occurrence of leukemia in an opossum. 
1^16. Fallow Deer. 
The liver of this animal presents an interstitial change suggesting the pic- 
ture of hepatic cirrhosis upon a basis of tuberculosis as described by Stoerk. 
The interlobular spaces containöd many accumulations of epithelioid cells, and 
in some places a few giant cells. Fibroblasts, while not numerous, are en- 
countered, mostly on the periphery of these epithelioid infiltrates. The normal 
connective tissue is rather overshadowed by the cellular proliferation, although 
b\^ no means less than normal in quantity. There has been no proliferation 
of th'e bile ducts as yet, and only in a few places does one encounter a slight 
obstruction of a portal vein. 
This seems to be an early stage of the action of the toxin upon the support- 
ing tissue of the liver via the portal vein. The parenchyma shows a fine 
granulär change and in some places minute vacuoles. 
14^46 and 14 ^ 6 . — Fallow Deer (£) rabies. 
Two cases of this infection developed in a pair of fallow deer kept in one en- 
closure, caused by the bite of a dog. This history seems entirely satisfactorj’, 
since no other case appeared in the Gardens. On the morning of July 7th, a 
small cur dog gained admittance to the enclosure in some w'ay, chased the 
animals around, and was seen to bite the buck on the nose. The dog was caught 
and killed but no autopsy was held. The doe died on July 22d (15 days later). 
It is said to have beaten its head against the fence and to have attacked the 
buck. The soft parts were missing from the top of the head between the ears. 
The buck died on the 5th of August (29 days la+er). The soft parts of the 
head and the velvet of the horns were torn and blood\ . 
The autopsies showed nothing of importance except moderate tuberculosis 
of the mesenteric Kmiph nodes. The brains were submitted to Dr. John 
Reichel of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board Laboratory, wLo kindl}»^ con- 
sented to make examinations, having suitable facilities at his command. He 
reported on August 13th that both brains showed microscopical evidences of 
rabies, and that subdural injections of portions of the brains where the virus 
is to be found produced the disease in rabbits. 
Report upox the Pathologic.\l Coxditiox.s foexd .\moxg a Number of 
Specimexs of THE Female Gexital Tragt. 
Dr. E. A. Schumaxx. 
Raccoon. — Puo Salpingitis. 
The specimen consists of the uterus and appendages. The corpus uteri 
and the cornua are normal. The oviducts, outer folds of the broad ligament 
and ovaries are the seat of chronic inflammatory change. Oviducts and 
ovaries are densely adherent to the broad ligaments and to each other. The 
abdominal ostia of the tubes are closed and the fimbriae fused. 
Microscopically, the oviducts are the seat of a den.se round cell Infiltration 
w'ith some hyperplasia of connective tissue, and cloudy swelling of the mucosa 
with exfoliation of the epithelium. The ovarian structure is intact. 
Malayan Civet . — Ovarian cyst. 
The ovaries are characteristic of the viverridae; they are almost spherical, 
of smooth contour, and partialh^ imbedded in a fold of the broad ligament 
which curves around to form a portion of the abdominal ostium of the tubes. 
